CelluloidKid
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_Beyond a Reasonable Doubt_ (2009) wasn't "THAT" bad as critics made it out to be!
However, seeing _Beyond a Reasonable Doubt_ (2009) with out having seeing the original gave me more of an open mind.
However, the 1st 1/2 hour was really good ...the last 1/2 hour was a throw together of every Hitchcockian, paint by number film thriller/film Noir, with a twist ending that I didn't seeing coming (Shhh! Don't tell!) that still leaves me going Uh!?.
Final Rating: D-
Good cinematography ...excellent score ....great opening titles credits.. Michael Douglas still shows he has it ...but the rest of the cast needed some work, & so did the film!
The story was interesting ...but very convoluted.
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*The last Brittany Murphy film to be released before her death on December 21, 2009, was the thriller "Across the Hall." This independent film premiered at Laemmie Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills on December 1, 2009. The entire film, _inspired by classic Hitchcock_, was shot in just 17 days. "Across the Hall" was filmed on the same Universal Studios sound stage as "The Birds" and "Psycho." It was based on the 2005 short film of the same name, directed by Alex Merkin and produced by Gary Gimelfarb and Evan Ferrante.*
*VERY ....VERY INTERESTING!!*
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*"Across the Hall" opened at select NYC and LA theaters on December 4, 2009. The film will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 19, 2010.*
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Hurd Hatfield was in: _Dragon Seed_ (1944) directed by Harold S. Bucquet!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Harold S. Bucquet!*
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*I just rented _Beyond a Reasonable Doubt_ (2009) for a $1.00 from Redbox ... I will atch toight and really see how bad or good it really is!?.*
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Do not grieve at the passing of mortality,for life's but a thing of terrible gravity. And the planets gravitate around you, and the stars shall dance about you,and the angels in heaven adore you, and the saints all stand and applaud you. So faraway,so faraway and yet so close.
Nick Cave, "Far Away, So Close"
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*The Las Vegas critics gave their William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award to:*
*cinematographer Roger Deakins!*
Roger Antony Deakins (born 24 May 1949) is an English BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Achievement Award to cinematographer Roger Deakins, a movie industry veteran whose extensive list of credits includes ?A Serious Man,? ?Revolutionary Road,? ?The Reader,? ?Doubt,? ?No Country for Old Men,? ?A Beautiful Mind,? ?Fargo?
Roger Deakins has received eight Academy Award nominations for the previously mentioned films, in addition to high praise from critic associations in both America and Britain.
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1) _Black Christmas_ (1974)
2) _Santa Claus Conquers the Martians_ (1964)
*Santa Claus Conquers The Martians trailer*
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Brittany Murphy (November 10, 1977 ? December 20, 2009) was an American actress and singer. She starred in films such as Clueless; Girl Interrupted; 8 Mile; Sin City; Happy Feet; and Riding in Cars with Boys, and performed vocals on a range of films and with dance musician Paul Oakenfold, together garnering a number one dance music hit in the United States in 2006.
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*Sad to say CNN didn't even report that Jennifer Jones, 90; Oscar-winning actress passes away!*
*Very ... Very Sad ...Not even a mention of Dan O'Bannon, 63, Wrote Screenplay for 'Alien,'!*
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Sazerak ..... _Gone with the Wind_ (1939)
*NEW WORD: Holiday Decorating Accident!*
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*Dassin, Jules* - Director Dassin began his career as an actor in New York City's Yiddish Theatre, later writing radio scripts and eventually getting hired to direct by RKO, then MGM. He was blacklisted in the McCarthy era and moved to France, later settling in Greece after marrying actress/politician Melina Mercouri in 1966.
Perhaps his most famous films are '48's The Naked City, '49's Night and the City, and '55's Rififi. He also directed Joan Crawford and John Wayne in '42's Reunion in France,
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*Adrian, Gilbert* - Adrian (born "Adrian Adolph Greenburg") initially went to Hollywood as a freelance designer for Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino, among others.
He was then hired by Cecil B. DeMille, moving along with DeMille to the MGM studio in 1928, where he was soon designing costumes for the studio's leading actresses. (He stayed with MGM until 1941.)
He began designing for Joan Crawford in 1929, discarding her earlier frilly flapper styles for a more sleek, tailored look. His padded-shouldered creations for her '32 film Letty Lynton became a nationwide sensation; costume designer Edith Head later called "Lynton" the "single most important influence on fashion in film history."
Adrian designed all of Joan's onscreen clothes, and some of her personal wardrobe, throughout her MGM years
Thanks,
Wikipedia!
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*_Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire_ (2009)*
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In 1935, _Joan Crawford_ married her second husband, stage and film actor Franchot Tone. Tone, a stage actor from New York who planned to use his film salary to finance his theatre group, and Crawford appeared together in _Today We Live_ (1933).
*Celebri-links . Franchot Tone*
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Clark Gable was in: _Chained_ ('34) with Joan Crawford!
*NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*
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*_Les enfants du paradis_ (1945) (Released as _Children of Paradise_ in North America)...*
*WOW!! What a film ...I'm glad I recorded it too!! I wish TCM had put this on earlier in the day and had a Robert Osborne talk about the film!*
*TCM had this film on so late ... 12:45am Arizona time .. I only stayed up till 1:30am then went to bed ...going to finish the rest of the film today!*
*_Children of Paradise_ would have been more fun watching than _How the West Was Won_ (1962) @ 10am for about the 100th time this year (TCM wasn't the only channel playing this film!)!!!*
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*I really wish TCM had shown some differnt epics ...like*
*_The Fall of the Roman Empire_ (1964) or _The 300 Spartans_ (1962) ...something new and exciting than the usual!*
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*12/06/09*
*DVD NEWS: Warner Archives just released Hollywood Revue of 1929 on DVD. Order.*
http://www.wbshop.com/Hollywood-Revue-of-1929/1000124439,default,pd.html?cgid=
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*I love Richard Burton ...he needs to be the "Star of the Month" on TCM!!.*
*He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award (without success) and was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.*
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*Dan O?Bannon, 63, Wrote Screenplay for ?Alien,? Is Dead* *RIP*
By BRUCE WEBER
New York Times
Published: December 20, 2009
*Dan O?Bannon, whose screenplays for ?Alien,? ?Total Recall,? ?The Return of the Living Dead? and other films made him a cult hero among science fiction aficionados, died on Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 63.*
The Writers Guild of America confirmed his death. The cause was Crohn?s disease, a chronic gastrointestinal disorder that Mr. O?Bannon endured for 30 years, his wife, Diane, told The Los Angeles Times.
Mr. O?Bannon had an early start as a screenwriter when he and the director John Carpenter, students at the time at the University of Southern California film school, wrote the low-budget film ?Dark Star,? which was released as a feature in 1974.
After working as a computer animator for the director George Lucas on ?Star Wars? and trying, unsuccessfully, to develop a film based on the Frank Herbert novel ?Dune,? Mr. O?Bannon created the story of ?Alien? with the screenwriter Ronald Shusett and wrote the screenplay on his own.
The film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver, is about a spaceship with a vicious monster loose onboard. (The creature begins as a parasite that explodes from a crew member?s chest.) It became a box office hit, a classic of science fiction and horror, and the progenitor of a lucrative Hollywood franchise, with its several sequels.
?I love gore films and I grew up with ?50s monster movies,? Mr. O?Bannon told the journal Cinefantastique in 1979, speaking of the film?s origins. ?The idea for the monster in ?Alien? originally came from a stomach ache I had.?
In 1985 Mr. O?Bannon wrote and directed ?The Return of the Living Dead,? part homage to the George Romero zombie film ?Night of the Living dead? and part genre spoof. In 1990 he teamed with Mr. Shusett again, among others, to write ?Total Recall,? a violent, futuristic tale set partly on Earth and partly on Mars and based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. It starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone.
Daniel Thomas O?Bannon was born in St. Louis on Sept. 30, 1946. He attended Washington University in St. Louis and MacMurray College in Abilene, Tex., before earning an M.F.A. from U.S.C.
His other screenwriting credits include ?Blue Thunder? (1983); ?Lifeforce? (1985) and ?Invaders From Mars? (1986), both directed by Tobe Hooper (who directed ?The Texas Chain Saw Massacre? and ?Poltergeist?); ?Screamers? (1995); and ?Bleeders? (1997).
He also directed ?The Resurrected? (1992), based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft, whom Mr. O?Bannon called ?the greatest horror writer who ever lived.?
Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Adam.
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*Waits, Tom*
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*Ray, Nicholas* - An American film director best known for the movie _Rebel Without a Cause_
& _Johnny Guitar_ (1954).
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schedule .... _Santa Claus_ (1985) Also Known As: _Santa Claus: The Movie_
*NEW WORD: Eggnog!*
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*_Valley of the Dolls_ (1967)*
Name a Celebrity - Name a Movie
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Jean Peters was in: _Three Coins in the Fountain_ (1954) directed by Jean Negulesco!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Jean Negulesco!*